Saturday Music News You Can Use

Today's live music options in New Orleans include George Clinton and Allen Touusaint

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/12/new_orleans_music_hot_picks_fo_240.html

Music faces to watch in 2014

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-music-faces-to-watch-2014-20131229,0,3022229.story#axzz2omlSPl8s

A stellar lineup is announced for next year's June Fest in Colorado

http://www.aspentimes.com/news/9496790-113/june-jazz-aspen-festival

"The Doors: R-Evolution" is a new DVD about you-know-who

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/entertainment/music/153210/the_doors:_r-evolution

Guitar great Tony Rice is ailing

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20131227/PROMO/131226023/Health-problems-silence-guitar-legend-Tony-Rice

Willie gets a guitar-shaped birthday cake

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/12/cake_boss_surprises_willie_nelson_with_birthday_cake_on_season_premiere.html

The Beatles' 50 greatest guitar moments

http://www.guitarworld.com/janaury-2014-guitar-world-beatles-50-greatest-guitar-moments-jimi-hendrix-mark-tremonti-15-signature-guitars-and-more

Tune in, and turn on the reading light

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/27/tune-in-and-turn-on-the-reading-light/?_r=0

And a couple of R.I.P.s of note: first, New Orleans musician Clark Vreeland, who co-founded the band that would later become The Radiators

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/12/clark_vreeland_guitarist_for_t.html

And Boyd Lee Dunlop, Buffalo Jazz pianist, has passed at 87

http://news.wbfo.org/post/pianist-boyd-lee-dunlop-star-late-life-dead-87